The New York Herald Newspaper, March 23, 1872, Page 4

4 BEND THE OAR. The International Race Between the Atalanta and the London Rowing Club Crews. THE RACE TO BE ROWED IN JUNE. etches of the Men, Their Weights, Personal Appearance and Their Rowing Records. ARE THE ATALANTAS HEAVY ENOUGH ? “Stroke Oar” Blaikic and His Opinion of the Coming Contest on the Mnddy Thames. The past ‘five or six years have created a complete revolution in aquatic matters on this side of the water, and although it seemsonly a short time since American oarsmen were mere tyros in that noble pastime the record of the past year has shown of what stuff our oarsmen are composed, The defeat of two of their crack proiessional crews by a crew composed of men considerably past the me- ridian of able-bodied ana heaithful life came like a thunderclap upon Engiand, who for so many years had reared and educated the champton oarsmen of the world, It has, howeyer, only exemplified and carried out a saying which is credited to a famous English aamiral, and which tradition hands down as follows:— ‘Whatever man dare he can do, The success of our professional oarsmen has given @certain inspiration to our amateur oarsmen, and resuited in the challenge of the Atalanta Boat Club, of New York, to tne London Rowing Club, Eng- land, to pull a friendly four-oared race, in order to decide, if possible, whether our amateur oarsmen could not do as well with men of thelr own stand. ing as the Ward brothers did last year on saratoga Lake with the pick of the professional crews of Eng- land and the Canadas. The London Rowing Club will be represented by no tyros in the school of amateur aquatics, but by men who have the reputation of being second to none in point of physique, en- durance and skill. A special despatch to the HERALD names Messrs. Stout, Ryan, Gulston and Long as the probable representatives Of the London Rowing Club. In case of accident, however, they will have three or four men in con- BStant work, so that if, at the last moment, one should be taken sick they will have good and re- Mable men, thoroughly fit, from whom they can select, This London crew are all comparatively big men and will average about 16) pounds, while the Atalantas at their best will not scale more than 149 pounds, but 1t 1s not always weight that wins, as BKIll, endurance and good health are the most re- Mable attributes of the good oarsman. Both crews will pull without a coxswain, and although this will come natural to the Atalaata crew the advantage thus gained will be more than by the knowleage of the course different river from the Hudson, and it will require very close attention on the part of the Atalanta crew to become'thoroughly conversant with tne many changes and eccentricities of the diferent currents, where to go to gain a favoring tide, and where to@void the back wash of some of the in- numerable eddies ihat are met so frequently im that river. lt is a matter of general congratulation that the Arrangements for this match have been consum- mated in such perfect good feeling and gentle- manly spirit. There have been none of the bicker- ings Or smart tricks that have of late disgraced the arrangement of interpational matches, a8 on Us occasion a fair race was proposed and a fair race -Was pluckily accepted, and MAY THE BEST MEN WIN. Now that ali the preliminaries have been ar- ranged the Atalanta crew, or, as they may be called, the representative Crew of American amateur ours- meu, Will commence their ead sa rd next Satur- day, Jt may be argued that they are not the best crew of amateur oarsmen that could be selected throughout America, but there is litte doubt that there is no other crew in the country can beat them, ag their record will show. It is not detinitely de- cided what four meu will pull on Monday, Juue 10, ip the Alalanta colors, but snould notning happen in the way of sickness or breaking down in their training they will probably comprise:— R. Withers, stroke. E. Smuth, bo’ J. O'Neill, 2 . T. Van Kaden, 3. Total WeIgHt......s.sssessseeeeees seeeee 595 The subsututes selected, who will aiso do regular Work, 80 as to be ready at @ moment's notice, are:— L, Waterbury A. Hanay. H. B. Leroy oe All these men ell kno’ and they have been pulling 1n amateur races on the. Budson and other rivers for the past ten years. As they are avout to cross the Atlantic to show of what kina of stuiT the American amateur oarsmen are composed it would mot be amiss to give a short sketch of their aquatic career, Dr. Richard Withers, by profession a physician and a druggist, and commonly known in aquatic circles as *:Doc’ Vithers, 18 the leading spirit and the father of amateur oarsmen in this country, He is thirty-five years of age, m the prime of lle aud scales about 160 pounds. boc Withers 13 the origi- nal member of this crew, and he nas been pulling on the Hudson ior pleasure as an amateur for tne past filtcen years. It nas been through the energy and coaching of Doc Withers that the Atalanta crew have arrived at the kaowledge and skill as oarsmen which they now pussess, and it will be under his fatherly care that they hope to return an cs expedition bearing wilh thei the Chaplet victory. KE. Smith, the bow oar, is twenty-four years of ge, and altuough the youngest of the crew, 15 one oO; the most reliable men they possess, and has on Many occasious steeret tieir boat to victory. Mr, Smith is acierk in the Wastington Ice Company, and has been pu ling on the Hudson since he was seventeen years of age. He is a small man, welgh- tng about One hundred ana forty pounds, but well put together, wiih that stuil tuat Js calculated to stay Ul it drops, He bas been in the crew longer than any other man, excepting the “Doc.” T. Van Raden, who pulls No, 3, is twenty-nine years ol age and a salesman in a William street commission house, This gentieman is a well known Oarsmian, aud first made his reputauon in aquauc Circles with the Columbia Boat Ulub, of which he was a member, When that club, however, became consolidated with the Atalanta’s Mr, Van Raden Was instantly selected as one of their champion crew, He is a well built’ man, welghing about one hundred an’ fifty pounds, and has been pulling for the last ten years, T. O'Neill 1s oue of the latest additions to the Atalauta crew. This gentleman Is the prop rietor of & gymnasium in this city, und 13 about thirty years Of age. ile 1s the biggest man in the crew, weighs about 155 pounds, and pulls No, 2. As an amateur Oarsman Mr. O'Neill bas olten been before the pub- lic pulling in amateur sculiing matches under the rules of the fiudson River Atuateur Rowing Asso- on, He made his frst appearance in aquatic cles With the Mutual Club, of Alvany, and was Siverwards with the Gullcks, of New York. Mr. O'Netil only joined the Atalanta Club last tal) and never et a@race with them yet, Waterbury is a United States weigher and guager and has been o long time connected with he Atalanta Boat Club, Mr. Waterbury is about thirgy years of age and weighs 160 pounds, He has pulled in the Atalanta crew for the jast five or six years and 18 @ BU and rejiavie oarsman. Mr. Waterbury will probably go across as a first substl- tute im case of chauge being necessary, A. Handy is ‘ol 0 ® LookKeeper and now engaged in the ith National Bank. Ile is twenry- keven years of age and thesmaliest man in ihe crew, weightug only 138 pounda, He has bee ber Of the Atalanta Cluo for the last five ‘Was one of the crew that pulled agai and Yale last year, Harvard Mr. Handy 18 an excellent oars- man and has made a great reputation ag an ama- teur sculler. He will probably go across as one of the substitutes, H. B. Leroy bag pulled for the last two or three years with the crew, and will probably go across If anything sould happen to any of the above six, taere. to the day of leaving tor England, Mr, roy 18 an independent gentleman, of New Ham- burg, who made his first devut in aquatic circles With the Spatemuc Boat Club of Poughkeepsie. He Is about twenty-four years or age and scales 145 Ibs. The crew to compete with the London Rowing Club will be selected from the above seven amateur Oarsmen, and, barring accidents, the first four named will be the chosen. The rangements have been made for tne oarsmen to leave wus city on the iath of April, in the City of Brooklyn. ?his Will’ probably bring them to Liverpooi about the 24th, and to Putney the 25th, where they intend taking up their trainmg quarters. ‘Tne entife charge the men will provably rest in the hauds of “Doc! be A K, #0, pars n Of fifteen ene sis ASS X ph i i Hint pfetr on 3 epurmial it iid abi expert pot at the “Doc” thoroughly understands hi Men and ds bhus beer abio to take the charge of overbalanced | wien | the London men possess. The Thames is @ very | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1872.-TRIPLE SHEET. yalcal Health and culture than one to whom thi Bry be entire sipngery uey wil, doubuens nave some Tnames wal fol 9 few weeks to Wexn them a lead, until the bow oar, Smith, becomes bet- ter Sequatatedt with the inwicacies of the diferent curren! A large delegation of the Atalanta Boat Club, avout thirty in number, will leave in about @ month, 80 AS to arrive about @ week before whe race, Tho crew expect to have five clear weeks upon the other side previous to the race, during which time they hope to get acclimatized and thoroughly fit, so as to do credit the stars and stripes which will represent. They will take with them two one for training in, and the other for the race. The train- Jag boat has just been Hnlshed, and is a fine speci- men ol the haudtwork of George Kobr. It is about forty-one feet in length, eighteen inches wide, and weighs about one hundred pounds, The racing boat will be finished im about ten days, and will be of the same dimensions, only built a trifle lighver, Aithough these boats are to be taken over, they nave not decided detinitely to puli the race in olcaee, oo they may, perhaps, have a boat built in Ly iy ‘ne Atalanta crew have a very excellent reputa- tion a3 amateur weer and last year they de- feated the picked Harvard crew over @ three-mile course straight away by one minute, They also beat Yale in @ race a mile and @ half round @ stace- boat and return by nine seconds. They did not pull last year in the regatta of the Hudson River Row- ing Association, a3 they had withdrawn from the asociation, naving reason to be dissatisfied with @ decision given in the regatta of ‘he previous year. ‘They won the champion flags of the association in 1867 and 1869, Now that the ice 1s breaking up they are anxious to get to work, and next Saturday the crew, com- prising Witners, Smith, Van Radea and U'Neill, Will proceed to Newark and try how their new boat Sits upon the water, They prefer rowing on the Passaic tor the present, ag there 1s less floating ice and a clear course tor a good pull to open thelr Inngs. The practice of. this crew will be watched with much interest by all amateur oarsmen during the few weeks elapsing before their departure. AN OLD OARSMAN ON THE RACE: What William Slakic, the Harvard Stroke of 1866, Thinks of tho Atalanta and Lon- don Rowing Crews. Jn the old Harvard rowing days there was one man who, after Yale nad beaten the first American University on Quinsigamund Lake, undertook to train @ crew at Cambridge, Mass., to regain the crown that the New Haven boys had carried away with Wilbur Bacon as stroke. This man was William Blakie, who as stroke of a Harvard six bore away once more the palm of victory for tne Magenta color, aud lett the Yale six. behind in a backwash. A HERALD reporter called on Mr. Blakie, at the office of the United States District Attorney, in Chambers street. yester- day, to ascertain his opinion, as an old University stroke oar, in regard to the coming international race on the Thames river in England, wi:ich is to take place between the four-oared crew of the Atalanta Boat Club of this city and the four-oared crew of tne London Rowing Club of London. Mr, Blakie is a frank, hearty fel- low, and gave his opinion in this very important matter without regard to any issue that muy be made hercatter. Mr. Blakle 1s an assistant to Mr. Noah Davis, and is at present out of boating matters, but still—like all men who have ever satin a Howard rowing boat—he takes a great deal of interest in rowing matters. “‘L have called," said the HeRraup reporter, to “get your ideas in regard to the great international race which is to take place in June next, What do you know of the Atalanta crew"! “What do I know about the Atalanta crew? Well, I have not kept the run of the Atalanta Club } in races, but 1 think 1 know something of their record. They propose to send over their regular six-oared crew, fout of Whom will row the London Rowing Club. The gentlemen chosen are Withers (stroke), O'Neml, Van Raden and Smith. I might feel a litte shy of the two Jast named, on account of their weight- when they rowed Harvard and Yale last summer, that ts if their Weighis then correspond with what they will weigh in the coming race. These genulemen may not be up to a four mile and three furleng race, such as they will have to row onthe Thames. [ should have more confidence in the result if such men as Wilbur Bacon, President of tho New York Rowing Club, and Gunnei Willis, Captain of the Nassau Boat Club, were in such a crew, or if not the two last named gentlemen those of equal ex- perience and of equal weights. The Atalanta crew is comparatively a light one, and can they beata crew lke the London Rowing Club, who will certainly be fifteen pounds heavier per man, and who are very experienced rowers, who care nothing for excitement and have been in all sorts of tight places for ten or twelve years? These light men will do well enough for short distances In @ race, but I think the record of fast rowing ever since outriggers came Into fashion will show that fast time over long dis- tances has almost invariably been made by crews averaging generally nearer 160 than 150 pounds per man. The crew of the Atalantas, if I am rightly informed, wili only average about 145 pounds per man. Stil there have been exceptions, ag in the case of Taylor, of the Taylor-Win- Another essential | gre ship crew, who only scaled 142 pounds when he rowed at Lachine. But the rule is decidedly in favor of the heavier men. _1 think that the London Rowing Crew at the Paris Exposition in 1867, the Renforth crew, the Taylor-Winship crew and all the fast rowing crews of Harvard and Yale, or those who have rowed without @ coxswain, would say that their ight men will find considerable trouble beiore reaching Barnes bridge, on the Thames, where tne load begins to tell even though tney have not @ coxswain to carry. Light men may Carry themselves quite as fast as heavier ones, but thirty pounds of boat and seven or eight pounds of oar wiil seem uncommonly when it comes to a fourth or fivth mile, It may be, however, that these four light men can each do their quarter of the work cut out for them, If so it will be unfortunate if they have not for the race four such men. I have not kept his ran of rowing for the last year or two, having dropped all public connection with it. The fastest ume that these Ata- lanta men have made, if f am not mistaken, In public, Was eighteen minutes and thirty-one seconds, over a tnree mile course oa a favorable day and track and rowing in@ slx-oared crew. ‘This is @ good, but not remarkable time, and taken with the fact that at that same time another crew was able to head them seconds, Thts looks at Jantas did not at time—1870—stand [aati df above our better amateur crews. ‘lo be sure tuey mace quick work Of the Harvard and Yale crews at Engleside last summer, put so would almost any otber Harvard or Yate crew ot the last jew years, had they been aiongside of the Atiantas in a race. Half a dozen young farmers oi tne Amherst Agricultural crew, who were never before heard Of 1 w race, did the track one minute sooner, 1 would like to Know what Josh Ward thinks of their chances,” “1 value his judgment very highly on boating matters, and 1 think his management at Saratoga last fall shows splendid generalship, He has taken Sreiey | ame A the measure of the Atalanta crew. “You know the gentlemen very well who are to represent the London Rowing Ciub in this race?” “Oh, yes. Indeed, I believe I am an honorary Member of that ciub myself; etlil 1 would like to see them thrashed this time.’? “What weight are the crew?! “Stout, who will probaviy be thelr stroke, 1s a fine fellow; rowed at the Paris races In 1867, He Weighed then 160 pounds, and I suppose he will not vary much Irom that in this, He has a deeper chest than Waiter Brown, and is @ bigger man than he was. Gulston will row at 168, or near that, and Ryan willrow about 157, trained and stripped. I think that Stout will be the best man in Mis boat, Judging from what I have seen of nim as a rowing mao. Heisa ke whom they cannot help 100k- ing up to, He ig about five feet ten inches bigh. There is that in his whole bearing that makes you think a8 soon as you look at him of a robust, hearty, self-suMcient man, and though when I saw him he was not in training, he had the clear, strong eye, ruddy cheek caabeunee contented expres- sion o! @ man thoroughly sound in healih and gooa at any time, if need for protracted and arduous physical effort, Long, who I suppose will row next to stroke, stands @ liveral six feet, and has the clean, cordy, Active look of aman who is always in good conal- uon—some snch @n oarsman, in short, as General Sherman would have made if he had had a few Mules of hard del fi to do almost every day from the vme he was eighteen until he was twenty-flve, You conld hardly make him fat; nor is he burly enough to sugge: power, but he looks as 11 he could wear a good while ata steady, strong stroke, while his unusual reacn gives his oar atl id a Wee een than that of any other » @n advan overiookt "gid Wage not to be Lghtly juision 13 abont Stout's height, broad in the shoulders or aeepin ine clon bag with noticably large upper arins and excellent legs, while in his loins, the piace where he who rows im their style just wants the strength, he is finely developed, but not so strik- ingly as the latter, or as Lyman of our crew, Bis arms used to seem rather (oo much for his bouy, causing him to “meet’’ his oar noticeably at the finish of the stroke, Ryan, who I taney will pull at bow, ts also avout aye leet ten; indeed I doubt if he, Guiston and tout vary an inch in height I should say he had a trifle more shoulder on him than Guiston, and has them a good while before vou could feel sure which Would pump our first. If they can row the race without much “spurting” I don’t think it would be long; if not, then I imagine it would, for he has hardly so solid, sturdy a as of the others. aaeee up . ho race the ment grows ugh a} nyiment gives way to hara, grim sense, our men oll iaed the naming of the one of these four they'd like to have just @ little sick, Stout would pretty surely ger tne vote, and 1 don’t believe We here at home would regret 1t.’? “Have they rowed many races?" “4 doubt if any amateur crew in the world nas rowed as many. Away back in 62 Stout won tie senior sculls of the London Rowing Club, and Ryan the junior, In ’e4 the latter took the junior sculls at Waltonon-Thames, In 66, at Henley, he was in the London four that made this famous track onl a length behind Cambridge Third Trinity, the latter winning in the snickes time, unt lately, if not now, on record. In 867 both Stout and Guiston made an_ excellent showing in the Exposition races on the Seine, and Long nas been, apd yet, amateur cham- pion of the Taames, while in many an affair of less importance, and doubtless in many I never heard of, they've figured more or lees prominently.” “What is their average ape! ? “About thirty, I should say—over, rather than Pe “Are they familiar with the Putney to Mortlake course?” “None more so, Ifancy. Their boat houses are, poe ah always have beea, nght on the very ank of it,’ “What sort of a chance would tney stand with the crack English professionals?” “Well, I hardly know, as they have few or no op- Portuntives to irs, thoug’ I saw Kelly oue day give Juiston two or three lengths’ start in his single scull and lead him when they were olf the Crab Tree Inn, less thana mile up, But think Keily ‘was in the better trim, thougn,’? “How would they Jare with the Wards?” ‘Why, the Wards have beaten the best profes- sionals m England, and I think know how to put even more ‘devil’ into an oar than these same skilful fellows, “What about their style?” “It is almost the periection of beautiful rowing, especially if Guiston has stopped ‘meeting,’ and they’ve 80 accustomed themselves to precision in their work that it seems as if 1t would be easter for them to row well than not.’ “A question is being raised as to the Atalantas being, amateurs. What do you think of it?" “If landerstand it rightly 1t ought not to give trouble, I take it that our men are amateurs tn the broad sense of the term, and have always been accepted so here, They may, perhaps, not come up to the strict letter of the law—if we have any universally recognized law here on the subject, which [ douvt—but, if they have never rowed @ match race for money, lscarcely ree how they have made a profession of their art, From what I know of the London rowing men, I think that they will incline to fall into this view of it.” “How long ought the Atalantas to be over there before the race?’ “£very day they can. What with securing quar- ters (for the Putney inns are poor affairs), learning the course, getting used to the climate and water and making all arrangements preliminary to the race itself, there’ll be plenty to do; and 1 suppose, too, that they will have a boat or ‘two to get there; for when we went over we found we could only carry ours on deck, they were so long; and It strikes me that it the tailend of one of these New Hampshire zephyrs, that the storm signal people say blows only a hundred and twenty miles an hour, should pay them a visit on their way across, the “spray” might spatter their shell m a way that would nardly be healthy for the puor thing.’ “Well, take it altogether, then, you don’t think the7 are likely to win?’ “No, I do not—that is, unless they throw out their light men. But, as I say, my opinion is, of neces- sity, one-sided, as I am not sufficiently familiar with the merits of our men, and is, of course, hastily formed. In weight, strength, in reach, in awe, expe- rience, rowing together, the best of coaching, entire familiarity wita the course, knowledge whereon 1t to reserve ad Where to spend thelr strength, freedom from anxiety both fore and on the day of the race, and in ability to properly measure their antagonisis’ strengtn— in al these, it seems to me, the London men will have the advantage. But I like the pluck of our Tellows mightily, and tf they can go over there and whip these tried veterans right on taeir own stamp - ing ground Pil be the best disappointed man you ever saw.” The Crew Who Will Row for England. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— You must have had the names of the Loncon Rowing Club crew incorrectly sent 10 you. There is no such name as “Strong.” Long is the name of the man who rows next to the stroke. No. 8 he ta called in england; No. 2, I believe, in Us country, The names of the four are:— Bow—George Ryan. 2-H. Gulston. 3—Albert de Laude Long. Stroke—William Stout. This 1s the four who wanted to row inthe Har- vard-Oxford race, but’ 1 understood trom a letter lreceived from the Vice President of the London Rowing Club that tfese men would not row, but that a younger crew would be. chosen, which crew had not as yet been decided upon, I am very happy to see that the utmost good feeling exists between the two cluos, and that there will be no chance of any such unpleasantness between the crews as occurred in the Harvard-Oxford match. I Tematn, sir, yours truiy, WILLIAM A, VIR@UE. BRAZIL. Death of a Brazilian Railway King—Suicide by an American Gentleman—Tue Cause Shrouded in Mystery. RIO JANEIRO, Feb, 23, 1872, By the last mail J Informed you of she death and burial of the Visconde de Itaboraby, late Prime Minister of sraziL J am now called upon to record the death of Senhor Mariano Pirocopio Ferreira Lagé, one of the most progressive and enterprising of Brazilians, The two men wore totaily distinct in disposition, character and reputation, and yet each in his sphere was @ prominent and representative man. One of the most magnificent turnpike roads in the world, without doubt, is the road leading from Petropolis to Juir de Fora, and known as the “Union Industrial road.” It1s 100 miles in length and through @ mountainous conntry, and is a splendid specimen of engineering skill, and forms Qn important avenue for bringing the proceeds of cultivation to this city. The projector and moving spirit was Senhor Lagé. The Dom Pedro II. Rall- way, leading airectly from this city up into the province of Minas, @ most interesting and marvel- lous piece of railway engineering, was also the re- sult of Senhor Lagé’s labors, and al the time of lis death he was the President of the corporation. In view of the abolition of slavery he was, too, eara- estly at work for the importation of more skilled and reliable labor, and had already contracted for the introduction of a large number of Chinamen on the same conditions as those introduced iato the United States, Only two months ago he losta young and only daughter. He was most seriously aifected by the loss, and his grief caused him undoubtedly to be more than usually susceptible fo the attacks ot dis- ease, and he became the victim of pernicious fever, and, aller an iliness of only @ lew days, passed away from earth on the 16th of this month, in his death Brazil loses one of her most advanced aud intelligent men, and his joss 1b will be impossible to supply. SUICIDE BY AN AMERICAN, Yesterday aiternoon at five o'clock an American, Mr, Napoleon '. Shear, committed ‘suicide by shoots ing himself through the heart with a smail pocket pistol, at the house 15 Rua Sanvosé& Nearly a month ago Mr, Shear came from Campinas, in the i of San Paulo, where he was iocated in pus- ness with Mr. G. B, Northrup, an American, He came 1 Rio almost solely to pur. as he was about to be married to @ worthy lady of Campinas, where le was held 10 high estimation. Many of his friends in this city saw him, and he was stopping while here at the Hotel Albion, A few days ago @ note dropped from the pocket of oue of his coats hang- ing in the room of the hotel, which was being ex- amined by the botel proprietor, whose fears were excited by the long absence of Mr. Snear. ‘The fol- lowing ts a copy of the note, which was written in @ plain, legible hana:— James P. Carleton will please forward my trunk, left 1m. his store, tomy partner, Mr, G. 4. Northrup, of Campinas, The phckage of money containe Ke T0800: “I took out Kee person ‘wil one anything Uy may denis, but {apa ined at ine my ut i Ead'do aut wieu toliva, © 7 7 “entby but fam ined of ite After Gnding the shove note It was supposed he had made way with himself, and no one knew of his whereabouts, His friends were beginning to make investigations, when the people connected with the bording house above mentioned, in Rua san José, yesterday afternoon heard the report of the pistol, and when they found him he was quite dead. it appears he had been a number of days at this place, aud bis latter days give much reagon to suppose he was suffering from temporary aberration Ol mind, No cause can e@ise be assigned, though it was known he was much depressed in being unabie to obtain a sum of money which he had put toto the hands of @ Brazilian for safe keeping and with which he looked to the payment of his weading ex- enses. Mr, Shear was originally from Loulstan 5 ut has been in San Paulo province for a number of eal le was in the Southern army and lost his igut arm at Gettysburg. He Was much esteemed here by ail who knew him, THE LOSS AT THE GREENPOINT FIRE. New York, March 22, 1872, To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. In your issue of 21st inst. your account of the fire at our New York Dyewood Mills, Greenpoint, does great injustice to the Fire Department of Brooklyn, E. D., our actual loss by fire boing $3,800 and 6; Water $4,600, Instead of $300 by fire and $30,000 vy eT, as stated in your article. The committes older and more seasoned 100k, Le too has the H Ysa Sapte ooMee Und. SPialy Took Sn in cap! thing but weak. Aitogether I think [ never sawa hetiar matched crew, and you’d have to study selected by the Underwriters to adjust the loss were UbaniMous in the opinion that the fre was well handled. Very baa iy AMES L. HARWAY & 00, ART MATTERS. Beasfrain Irving’s “End of the Game.” We have had on more than one occasion to regrot the comparative neglect of genreand historical paint- ing by our artists, and our consequent dependence on foreign schools for examples in what is perhaps the most attractive department of art. The causes that dispose our students to landscape painting are obvious enough to those somewhat acquainted with the diMcuities that he in the way of the study of the figure in this country—diMiculties that no devotion and no energy on the part of the student can remove. Want of schools, gal- leries and even of models deprives bim of all the aids that guide and support tne more fortunate European student from his first step taken in art. But in spite of the many obstacles there are found individuals 80 devoted to ART FOR ITS OWN SAKB that they will disregard worldly interest to do what their own feeling tells them is right, at whatever cost Or sacrifice, Such devotion to ifeas is lite comprehended by that great world that measures every man’s value by his success. Itis, therefore, almost entirely confined to those who find their happiness in the contemplation of abstract truth and nat is be the love of wi autiiul Lor the good that 1s im it With different measure of success,- according to their varied power, a small knot of men havo struggled hard ¢o establish a school of genre painting amoug us, Their efforts hitherto can acarcely claim to take rank with the works of art of the higher order of European arcists; but in many instances they have aculeved @ reuliy respectapie nm Owing oe want of generous appreciation in their own country many of our most successiul figure painters have sought new homes in foreign lanas, where tney have a clear field and no /avor, and where, Wo may add, there 13 10 PREJUDICE TO COMBAT. ‘The favors ly ae by mea like Boughton among @ strange peopic Proof in itself that we are no- wise lacking in the essential mode of thougnt upon which art 1s based. Notwitnstanding the eminently practical turn of the national mind, evidence is not Wanting that side by side with the rugged energ, which bridges over torrents and burrows throu; granite hills there lurks a deep poetic senti- Ment which irom time to wme finds expression torough the pen or brush of some strangely gifted cud of the people, ‘The work which we notice to-day comes as another revelation of what we may hope to achieve when our wealthy classes learn to recognize merit when it appears Without a name, Arustic patron- age is just now in vogue, but we fear there is not enough of that nice discernment in its bestowal Which 18 necessary to produce the best results. People purchase too often by the name that is on the canyas rather than by the value of the thought that is shadowed forth or the skull displayed in we manipulation of the materials, Mr, Irving has been happy doth in the selection of hia story and his manner of illustrating it. In or- der to obtain Itberty to use effectively his leeling tor color the artist chose the age of Louis XIV., and we see in the careful and elaborate manner in which he has worked out the details of the picturesque costume that he was resolved to make the most of his advantages, “THE END OF THE GAME” can be regarded as an almost literal rendering of apcene common enough in the days of the Grande monarqu’, and far irom being unknown even in our own day, though, perhaps, with the surround. 1ngsa tittle modified. ‘Two gentienen engaged in gambling have quarreiled and appealed to the arbi- tament of the sword. ‘the moment chosen by the artist in which he who provoked the quarrel has recelved _ his death wound anda falls into the aris ol his frieud. His opponent looks coldly on, like a man who has resented an injury ratner [rom sense of duty than from passion, but Whose natural anger binds him to the gravity of the act he has done in depriving a fellow creature of life. His second, being cooler, ig more concerned, and 100ks anxiously in the direction of the dying man. ‘The drawing and expression of this group are admirable. But it to the dgure of the dying man that our attention is naturally drawn (and here the artist has made a real success), ‘The iatal wound has com- pletely subdued the fierce passions that but an instant before agjtated the breast of the victim, and we see pain auG anger contending in the face of the dying man, who still teebly grasps bis now useless sword. In the detineation of the passions which are moving the acvrs the arust has been most happy, and we can almost mark tne SHADOWS OF DEATH STEALING OVER THE FACK ot the wounded gentleman, driving before them the traces of the stormiul passions soon to be hushed forever in the stillness of death. ‘This sug- gestion of transient feeling has veen produced by the most minute and subtle painting of the face, and displays a rare power of portraying character and the toougnts and feelings struggling wiluin, Tne general treatment of the picture 1s eminent): dramauc, without any undue sensationalism, though it must be contessed the nature of the sub- ject offered strong temptation to seek effect by ovier than legitimate means, But this danger has been avoided by the artist, to whom we feel uoder an (eet for tae calm, self-contained figures: that balance the action of the main group. In adal- tion to ite mers of composition the work gives proof of Mr. Irving’s exquisite ticel- ing for color, ‘Tms picture recalls the well known work “Apres le Bal,” which is some. what similar in subject. It 1s bestowing no niggard praise on Mr. Irving's work when we gay that it is not unworthy to be compared with the French painting. We hope that Mr, Irving will receive practical tokens of appreciation in increased pat- ronage as an incentive to others to work as hard and perseveringly by proving to them chat merit will meet with ready and generous support. Metropolitan Museum of Art. The temporary gallery of the museum (681 Fifth avenue) 1s open daily, except Sunday and Monday, from nine A, M. to five P. M., and on Monday even ings from seven to ten P, M. Admission for the present is confined to holders of tickets, which are Placed wt the disposal oi all subscribers, but which can also be obtained on written application to the Honorary Superimtendent, at the musaum, or at his Office, 64 East Twenty-third street, PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD ACCIDENT, up at Conemaugh Farnace— Two Passengers Killed and About Four- teen Seriously Injured—Three *lecping Cars Wrecked. PITTSBURG, March 22, 1872. The Southern express train on the West Penasyl- vania Railroad was wrecked at Conemaugh Fur- nace, seventy-five miles east of Pittsburg, at seven o’clock this morning. The cause of the accident was a broken rail The engine and six forward cars kept the track, but the three rear cars went off, one of them going over an embankment, The three cars wrecked were palace cars—one being a Louts- ville sleeper, one & Philadelphia and Pittsburg sleeper, and the other @ Baltimore and Pittsburg sleeper, Two passengers were killed, Fourteen passengers were injured, who have been placed in an extra train and weil cared for, The names of the killed and wounded are as follows:— Killed—A young German lady from Baltimore, named Miss Armanda Hartman, supposed to be & daughter of a German clergyman of that city, and Samuel Jacovs, jeweller, from Baltimore. Wounded—Mayor A. P, Callow, three ribs broken and internal injuries; Guy M. Irwin, injured inier- nally; James Brown and Mrs. T. Robbin, all of Alle- heny, Pa., the two first named seriousiy; D. vu. Patterson, of Washington city, left shoulder dislo- cated and right arm fractured; Joseph Seliybrid: of roy Onto; E. J. Tryon, of New York; @. W. Moore, of New York; Richard Vose, of New York; G, N. Phiitips, of Newcastle; H. 0. Hrost, of Hanul- bal, Mo.: E. G. Shephard, of Cadiz, Oblo, and E, Beaker, of Terre Haute, Ind. ‘The three rear cara were entirely destroyed. RAILROAD MATTERS, Atlantic and Gulf Railroad Difficulties. SAVANNAH, Ga., March 22, 1872, Important railroad matters are transpiring In this city. Ata meeting of the directors of the Atlantic and Gulf Katlroad a proposition of certain parties to lease the road for aterm of years was rejected. In Consequence of this action six of the airectors repre- senting Savanah interests resigned their positions. At the I nual meeting of the stockholders a proposal was made to lease the road and extend It to the original termmus, Mobile, The Ventral Ratl- road has purchased a controlling interest in tie steamships belonging to the several lines plying between this city and the Northern ports, The effect of this arran ent will give to the compan, an opportunity of Fegulating Trelphes. y ti) Southern Railroad. CiNctnnaTt, Ohio, March 22, 1872. A Frankfort special despatch says the amend- mentto the Cincinnati Southern Railroad act has pasaed the Kentucky Senate by @ vote of 16 to 14, It removes all the restrictions and taxes upon the road except the ‘Holt’? amendment, which re- quires a tax upon fret, Cinein Av Injunction Dissolved. Ronpovr, N. Y., March 22, 1872, Judge Murray, of Delaware county, has dissolved the Injunction restraining the {ease of the Rondout and Oswego Railroad to Green & Satterlee, The latver now have possession of the road and are run. ning it as ageuts of the eee ‘the employ és of the road have not beon paid for two months back, and much indignation 13 manifested over the fact, DEATH OF.A MURDERER, Masifliis, fonn,, March 22, 1872, Luke Paddon, who murdered Edward Burr at French Garden last summer, died tn jatl last night of consumption, THE FEAST OF PURIM. History of its Origin—The Story of Esther= How the Feast is Kept. The Feast of Purim, which will be celebrated on Sunday with appropriate rejoleaings by every Israel- ite communtiy throughout the wide world—and What other race has neen so sadly scattered ?t— Tecalls one of the most interesting episodes of Biblical history, Indeed, the feast 1s, 1n a certain sense, the property of Hebrew and Christian alike; for, though 1 18 kept only by the Jew, every Onristian child has rejoiced in the downfall of Haman and the exaltation of Mordecal, as told in the Book of Esther, Singularly graphic, though toid in simple, artless Words, 1s the story whose crisis is now for the latest me in twenty-five centuries to be again commemorated. Thefe came a ume when King Ahasuerus (who bas been identified with the Xerxes, who endeavored to chain the Helles- pont) gave agreat feast, All the princes of tne em- pire were gathered together, ‘and they gave them drink in veagels of gold.” One custom of the féast, a8 we are told, might be adopted with advantage even at the present day. It 1s this:—‘‘And the drink. ing was according to the law—none did compel; 80 the King nad appointed to the officers of his house that they soula do according to every man’s plea gure.’ Asa fitting climax to the festivities the King sent for his Queen, Vashi. that she might re- fice the eyes of bi; guests witn her beauty. Vashti, umiliaced by the request, refused to come, and was, by the advice of tne King’s counsellors and ior the behoof of ali the stroug-minded women of ‘ne time, deposed. ‘Tne King then com- Manded that all the most beautiful maidens of the umes should be brought beiore him, that Might select a new consort The fortunate woman chosen was a young Jewess named Esther, who had been brought up by her cousin Mordecai. So with a great least, Esther, Who by Mordecai’s advice preserved her nationailty @ secret, was solemnly installed as Queen, Mor- decal sat at the King’s gate, and soon afterwards plies instrumental in discovering a plot against tie ne. Eight years of quiet and prosperity passed by, and the King founa a new favorite—Haman, the son of Hammedatha, whom he exalted to tne highest piace beneath the throne. ‘he King’s servanis alt wed and did nim reverence, and Mordecai alone Tailed in this custom. Hanian, therefore, hated hin, and, knowing that he was a Jew, determined to exterminate the whole race. Having cast lots—or pur—for @ favorable day, he obtained from the King permission to kill ana spoil all the Jews in the @nd instructions to bls elect were the King’s officials, ‘fhe massacre Was to take place on the 13tn day of the twelitn mouth, and the Hebrews, thereiore, had abundance of time to ward off the intended blow. Mordecai and his fellow countrymen put on sackcloth. and ashes, and the news thus came to the ears of Esther. Hyther resolved to save ner people even at the risk of ner own lite, and Invited the King and Haman to come to a bDauquet that she had prepared for them. ‘The invitation was accepted, and che King turiher consented to come with aman on the morrow to @ similar feast, That night, how- ever, he could not sleep, and to amuse him the scribes read over the records of nis reign. Among these was a narration of the gooa services rendered by Mordecai, and the King haying asked what had been the reward given to tne Jew, and been informed that Mordecai had receivea no reward whatever, culled Haman in, wlio was watt- 1ng Without in ‘the court to come in and ask per- mission to hang Mordecai on a galiows which he had already put up in 03 garden jor that parpose. Tne King, Without disciosing the name of the man he iniended to reward, asked what should be done to the man whom the King delighted to houor, Hamun, thinking himself Intended, udvised a very pleasant programme, which he was forthwith com- mauded, greatly to his own disgust, to carry out. Whe following day, at the second banquet, Kstuer | openly denounced Haman to the King, and the King ordered bim to be hanged oa the gallows which he had intenued for MordecaL All alter this was easy. ‘Ihe decice about the Jews was aunulled and another substl- tuted im its pines giving them permission to slay their enemies, Ever siuce the lourteenth and fif- teenth days of the month Adar have veen kept with feasting and rejoicing and the excuange of presents, in memory of these events, and the iestival has been named Purim, 10 allusion to the throwing of the lot, or Pur, beture Haman, In modern twesthe feast has always taken, @mong otner forms that of masquerading parties and balls, and on Sunday night, as usual, the streets wiil doubtless echo to the feet of bands of Israelites, on their way trom house to house, disguised in merry- making raiment, ¥ormerly we used to have a great “bal,” bat @ more aristocratio ‘reception’? has now taken its place. To THE Eprror oF TAE HeRALD:— I enclose you extracts from a letter just received from the diamond fields, dated December 19, 1871, at Sivonell, Kilp Drift, which may prove interesting to those having f1lends or who contemplate seeking tneir own fortunes In that quarter of the glope:— My former levters were written and posted trom Du Toit’s Pan, the place where 1 lived aad worked some five montns und a hall; but the hot weatner and sickness coming on 1 made up my mind to leave there (tne dry diggings), and go to the Kiver Vaal and work, Ihe week Jieit the Pan the deaths from low fever averaged wbout loriy per day, besides those irom uther causes, A more unhealthy hole Lnever saw. Lnave already given you a ae- scription of the place; but in case you nave not ro- ceived 16 1 will give it to you again, imagine a place where there is a good-sized pond, with hilis around, gradually sloping towards tue centre, then you will have an idea of it, ‘The diggings are principally in and about the pan or pond; the tents and houses are on the bills. Each Tan who sigus the ‘rules’ 1s allowed thirty icet square of surface, and any depth that be pleases to go. The pits are {rom one to iilty leet deep, Those more than’ twenty are worked with great danger from the crumbling in of the walls, You pay gov- erument (at this time the Orange River Free State) ten shillings and sixpence sierling per month for the privilege of digging tor diamonds ana other precious stones, ‘The british government has now seized the place and made English territory of it, in its usual honest and upright way of doing business. The charges are less now thau formerly sor digging, but are nearly doubled by taxes on other rights, that formerly we enjoyed for nothing. “God save We Queen!’ White men are now, under the mild and benign rule of England, tied to @ post and whipped like dogs for tne simplest ol- ience they may have comuutied, ‘tne law 18 plain regarding punishment, aud cannot be misunder- stood, All inagistrates are instructed, for any and all misdemeanors Of the diggers, to give them uot less than twenty-five lashes with the “cat,” and whatever other punishment they please. So If you gre accused of Knocking off & man’s hat, even in lun, English law will disgrace you forever with the ‘cat.’ We do not kuow how this will end The great mass of diggers protest strongly against it, and seem determined to resist ‘Ihere are about fifty thousand men on the fields; 80 11 they coutinue to act tirmly the law will have to be repealed, A great Many diamonds gre fouud on the sur- face, especially alier strong winds and heavy rains. ‘The soil 1s first dug up, exposed to we air and sua and thoroughly dried; then broken up with a spaue Until it is quite dry, Dut into @ sieve und sifted until the gravel is separated from the sand and earth. The gravel is then poured out on a tavie and sorted with an iron scraper, If there is a diamond in the heap you will most likely find it, How diamonds ot there is the problem for scientific men to svive, fhe prevailing Lellef is that they were formed vy volcanic acuion, the country bearing traces ol some great disturbance of nature, Others tniuk that they were and are formed by tightniag, which ts very vivid aod poweriul bere, The storins are fearfully grand and sublime; the whole heavens seem one map of fire. The theory is that the lightning 13 drawn by a kind of iron stone that abounus here, ite the carta passing through carbon and water, shus forming a diamond, There is @ piace called the New Rush, which is most marnistak aol the crater of an extipes Logan. Men theke have nade for- tunes in a lew we ‘What do you thiuk of fud- ing four aad five to six diamonds before brea i fast and perhaps @ dozen more during the day? Tw Americans I know, who were very poor, went there to work on a third each. To-day one of them has returned home with over a thousand pounds; while nd if bis luck continues he will take away with him five or ten thousaad. He em- loys some filty boys, besides five white men, con- Belore the three that were in the party broke up found a stone jhat welghed over eighty ot @ perfect one, 80 it ay aa a8 Pt be divided among three, day’s work, was it? Seven nundrod pounds a plece | Claims there fetch as much as five hundred and @ thousand each, so that you can see that a poor man stands ho chance of getting in, uniess he has some fortunate friend there to give him a lift, e stones of Du foit Pan are generally slightly of color, some of @ dark yellow, SO many of this kind have been found that they are not worth one- tenth the same weight and shape would ve if white, You can buy a beautiful yellow stone of twenty carats for a hundred pounds, when a white one wena cose six or seven hundred, and spmnetmes & thousan ee ra You must not think that all men are audcessful, tne mi ity have not paid theirexpensea, Iamone of the latter class, For five months I worked and slaved from morning to night before I found 2, 4 ast, ag ey ternoon, I picked fie out, welghini 6 Carats, but unfortunately slightly cracked and off-colored, The company who boarded and lodged me sent it to Cape Town, where it letched £01; so, aller all expenses on te stone were paid, I received £1509 my share—i. ¢., one-third, A poor man had far beter stay at home and work on the rallroad for wages than to come Out here with tae expevtation of doing well. Muvion 1a the only cheap Ling at the felds; all other provisions are very high, Sivoneil isa Kafir villago on the Vaal River, some ninety miles from the Pan, ‘the work is different from dry digging. 4) ravel alier sitting jt, wus Se fi Rat oftthet and pleasanter Wark’ If I make my fortune, as Hy, hope I will, you may expect to see me Hoth (ord Tong, but ‘hot belere. Now {hat sm here [am determined to suce lt v4 About undred mues from tere they have diséovered goli fleids, both quarts and alluvial diggings; #0. vethaps. I may try that place berore leaving. ~ — \ THE AFRICAN DIAMOND FIELDS.’ ~ BOGUS MEDICAL COLLEGES. Repeal of the Charters of the Philadelphia Uni versity of Medicine and Surgery and Eclec- tie Medical College of Philade!phia— A Warning to Abortionists and Illegal Practitioners. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 22, 1872, The unblushing efrontery with which Paine, 0! the Ninth street concern, and Buchanan, Hylton & Bissell, of the Pine street shop, have conducted their nefarious business has at last received a per> Manent quietus by the joint action of the Senate and Assembly of this State, The Hesgaup and all the Philadelphia papers have, time and again, called attention to the man- ner in which these places were conducted; but up toa few months ago no official action was taken. In Novewber last the HERALD and press of this city madea combined attack onthe nuisance, and the Sweeping exposé then made reacned even to the ears of the lawmakers at Harrisourg, and an in- vestigation was at once ordered. The Committee of the Senate had one or two sessions here and * others in Harrisburg, and, so overwhelming waa the evidence against these individuals, thut the Senate, on hearing the report of the committes, voted unanimougily to repeal their charters. Senator Randall, chairman of the committee, was satisfied from the first that the charges made by the press were genuine, yet he gave the pro- rey @) every Opportunity to prove their ino It HAS BEEN THE PRACTICE for years past ior these Indusuious ‘gents’ to sell diplomas to every one wo would buy for twenty- five dol and Upwards, and the misery and death entailed on the ignorant by the practices of these self-constitutea physicians have been beyond calcu- lation, and it Would be Weil to Know if there will be no turther steps taken against them, ‘the practice they have had in their business enables them to be- gin’ anew as oon as the excitement dies out, and ithas been suggested that proceedii be come menced agaiast them for criminal intent, con- spiracy, in getting money under false pretences and other unlawful practices. . THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTER 1s short, sharp and decisive, and 1s a3 well worthy the attention of interested parties of the Rosenz- sweig and Griadele class as those pursuing the course of Paine, Buchanan and Bissell, im other cities, It says:— ‘Toe examination of many witnesses has convinced your comumities that the Philadelphia University of Medicine and Surgery, under the management of Dr. William Paine, and the &clectic Medical Coliege, under the management of Dr. John Buchanan, have for a long time openly engaged in the sale of diplomas to persons who bad not attended even Practical collegiate course, and who in many instances were without any medical or sclentine attalninents whatever. It is also proved that Dr. Paine entered {nto ai with other parties to furnish diplomas ror sale, In many instances there was posit ve proof that ne bad issued the diplomas of the rilade!phia University of Medicine and Surgery, for a consideration, to persons who never attended any course of imsiruction, and to others who had only attenaed a few lectures in the course, and almost invariably without requiring an examina- tion of the peraon so graduated, or the writing of a thesis, In a number of cases Wituesses testify to having received meritorious degrees 1n medicine without study, examination oreyen payment. An examination of the books of Philadelphia University of Medicine and Surgery disc the fact that many honorary degrees from that institution Were disposed of for money, the entries stating specitically the amounts paid for such’ degrees, and the names of the persons to whom they were sai The tastinany concerning the flicit traffic in diplomas by the Kelectic College of Medicine, uader the manayement ol Dr. John Buchanan, developed some most astounding facts of this institution, ‘was carried on openly und matically. | Diplomas from this college, in regular torm and signed by the taculty, have been granted to women who could not even teil the location of the college, and there Is abundant testimony of the sale of degrees to persons who never attenied any of the lectures of the course, or received any medical instruction whatever, One of the faculty testitied before the committee tt ing the time be siled an important chair in this coliege he visited a distant portion of the State for the pu: ascer- taining who, among the practising physicians of that locality, were without diplomas, with the intention of selling them degrees for whatever sum could be obtaine nal disrepute and bas done great injury to the chat standing of the University of Pennsylvania and the Jett Medical College. It seems to have been the design of those engaged in the nefarious bustyess to create the impression that they really Tepresented the University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, and hence their endeavors, by frequent legislation, to obtain such names as would be likely to be mistaken for it, It is certalp from the testimony adduced that both the £cleot College of Medicine and the Philadelphia University Medicine and Surgery sold many scholarships to Who supposed they were purchasing the scholarships of the University of Pennsyivaaia, and that inno known instance btm ye error corrected wnen the student discovered the mistake. In view, therefore, of the clearly established fact that both the Kclectic College of Medicine and ‘aiiade) | Uni- Forafty of Medicine and Surgery have abused th in them by the Legisiature by their to persons who had not instruction, or were in any corporation, by selling their de, attended the regular course ol manner entitled to hold diplomas from a chartered college, and that thefr existence as Incorporated medical institutions Je productive of great diagrace to the medical profession and surgery of the community, respectiully recommend the pas- ‘sage of a law repealing all former laws incorporating said institutions, THEIR MOST IMPUDENT DESIGN seems to have been the intendon to convey an ime Pression to strangers that their houses were the Pennsyivania Vaiversity and Jetferson Colleges, two instituuions of world-wide fame, without a biot upon their record, aud daily performing works in medical science that reflect the highest credit on the ability and research of thetr distinguished faculty. Frofessor Rogers, of the University, and Professor Rand and Dr. Ralph M. Townsend, of Jeflerson College, have been untiring in their efforts to relieve their wolleges from @ shadow ot suspicion of come plicity with the men whose occupation 1s now gone, hor were these two great institutions ever supposed to have been in teagne with Paine and Buchanan, by any one acquainied wich them; but the similarity of tities nas otten misied strangers into entering the Institutions of the diploma sellers oy mistake; hence the desire of the representatives of Jofferson and the University to see the plague spots removed. Philadeiphia in future will be the ‘hottest piace’? for diploma sellers on the Conunent, OBITUARY. Snid Pacha, the Dervish.) Constantinople advices report the death of His Highness Said Pacha, sou-in-law of Sultan Mah. moud Il., and the burial of his remains in the texe of Nahsu Effendi at Scutari, The deceased Pacha, up till within a few years after the accession of Sul. tau Abd ul Medjid, filled many high posts, such ag Marshal of the Palace and Seraskier, and was Gov- ernor General in turn of several provinces, His forced retirement from public life was caused by an aflair which made a great noise at the time, that of Dr. Romano, a@ Prussian protege, who was beaten to death in the government Konak, at Damascus, Said Pacha being then Governor General of Syria, A large indewalty was paid to the doctor’s family, ana Said Pacha’s high family connection did not suve him from disgrace and banishment to Koniah, On his receiving permission to return to Constantt- nople he adopted a life of seclusion, and was known as & most devout Dervish, to which order he belouzed. Only taree weeks before nis deaih he intimated to his trend, the Sheikh of the texe im which he has been buried, bis intentuon to spend the rest of his days in that retreat. He was in en- joyment of @ pension of 60,000 piasters a montn, the greater part of which he distributed in alma among poor rvishes. Captain Jeremiah Austin. Captain Jeremiah Austin, of Albany, N. Y., died in that cliy last night. He was in the ninetieth year of his age; @ venerable man and much re. BSpected citizea, The Captain was one of the founders of the Albany Canal line. LIFE SAVING STATIONS AT CAPE OD, Boston, March 18, 1872, To THe Eprron or rar Wea pi— “7ST T notice in your's of Saturday, under the caption of “Life Saving Stations,” it 1s said:—“The recent disasters at Cape Cod were within 100 yards of one of (he stations designated (by Vaptain Faunce), and several lives were lost for lack of life saving appa- Tatu” Allow me to say that, so far as reported by the agents of the Humane Society of Massachu- Sets, the lives lost were in consequence of attempts to land at the rising time of tide, in common boata, instead of waiting for low water, or, at least, for ape tem aeene uid aiid oe neenne Carter h e Ww rely ha 2 on hand. 1 understand that ‘Captain ance —advoca: several well built and weil supped houses of refuge on Cape Cod; so well supplléd as fo afford cole” lortable ‘quarters for men pald to remain in them in hore weather and watch the coast, as is done by the it Guards of England. This plan, if thor- oughly carried out, wili doubtless save many lives, but it must not be forgotten that the brave and hardy sons of the Vape must have very high and constant pay, in order to secure their aid for saving jute, without the additional stimulus of the chance 0 be employed saving vessels and cargo, which generally pays betier than saving life in this sphere, RBS R Chairman of Standing Committee Massachusetts Humane Society, A BRUTE OF A HUSBAND. On Thursday night Jeremiah Faryof 169 Fast Broade Way, got on a spree with a few of his boon compantong and spent all nis money. About twelve o'clock ha returned home and commenced abusing his wife jargaret, ‘She remonstratea wit Jeremiah struck her in the face and knocked her down Be then kicked her ina siameful and brutal manner. Mrs. Fay wa8 in @ delicate condaon, and she re- celved such injuries that they Mecessitacea ner removal to the hospital, Fay was arraigned betore sudge Koch, at kssex Markel, yesterday, and om omoplaint of Officer Rovnehan waa held Ww answer,